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Notch: Mojang Offered "To Give Up the Trademark" for Scrolls

[Oct 03, 2011, 8:51 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Word of Notch offers a "short response" to some criticism in an editorial on Kotaku based on the recent release of legal documents related to the court battle over the Scrolls trademark. He explains that Mojang actually offered to give up the trademark, but Bethesda seems determined to go to court nonetheless:

I just saw this:

http://kotaku.com/5846111/mojang-v-bethesda-or-i-hate-it-when-mommy-and-daddy-fight

I feel the need to clarify a couple of things:

We realized we should apply for the trademark “Minecraft” to protect our brand. When doing so, we also sent in an application for “Scrolls”. When Bethesda contacted us, we offered both to change the name to “Scrolls: <some subtitle>” and to give up the trademark.

They refused on both counts.

Whatever reason they have for suing us, it’s not a fear of us having a trademark on the word “Scrolls”, as we’ve offered to give that up.

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Re: Valve Single Player Clarification

Oct 4, 2011, 05:11

Optimaximal

To me, the Kotaku article is misleading (and seems to have an agenda to boot). Notice how they transparently change the claim against Mojang from 'Scrolls' - which, with the capitalisation, is distinct and can relate to a product - to 'scrolls', which defines the word itself - something that would never be granted, as you cannot trademark a genericized word.

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Comment [quote="Optimaximal"Oct 4, 2011, 05:11]To me, the Kotaku article is misleading (and seems to have an agenda to boot). Notice how they transparently change the claim against Mojang from 'Scrolls' - which, with the capitalisation, is distinct and b[can]b relate to a product - to 'scrolls', which defines the word itself - something that would never be granted, as you cannot trademark a genericized word. [/quote]

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